Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 (M87) in the constellation Virgo is visible over distances of 3,000 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. JWST reveals M87's jet (pink) stretching across a hazy violet backdrop, with knots, twists, and ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A composite image of three infrared wavelengths captured by JWST showing the jet erupting out of ...

EHT images of M87* show evolving magnetic fields, jet emission near its base, and a stable shadow consistent with Einstein's predictions. (Nanowerk News) The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) ...

Black holes have a bit of an image problem. That’s to be expected from an immense remnant of a stellar explosion with billions of times the mass of the sun and a gravitational pull so powerful, not ...

New images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration have revealed a dynamic environment with changing polarization patterns in the magnetic fields of the supermassive black hole M87*. As ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have seen that the famous giant black hole in Messier 87, or M87, is propelling particles at speeds greater than 99% of the speed of light. The ...

Astronomers have shown that the black hole in Messier 87 is propelling particles faster than 99% of the speed of light using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The black hole in Messier 87, or M87, ...

Observations with the Event Horizon Telescope enable researchers to localize the likely base of the central outflow in a ...